The Amazon Rainforest Is Burning To Ashes And The World Couldn’t Care Less. Good Thing These Celebrities Are Changing That!

The Amazon Rainforest Is Burning To Ashes And The World Couldn’t Care Less. Good Thing These Celebrities Are Changing That!

On an average day, I find myself waking up to the same set of forwarded messages and incredibly unfunny Santa-Banta jokes, flooding my Whatsapp, courtesy of all the 15 family groups that I am in. But off late, if there is anything that I have been waking up to, it is the hard-hitting and painful reality of the world literally burning down to ashes, with the Amazon forest fires that have been scaling up for weeks now.

The Amazon rainforest is the biggest and largest rain forest on the planet and accounts for producing nearly 20 percent of the oxygen that there is in Earth’s atmosphere. Home to a myriad species of flora and fauna, the Amazon harbours the greatest ecosystems in the world, but the fact that it has been on fire for several days, has attracted almost negligible media coverage. That was till our stars and other around the world finally started attracting eyeballs to it.

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The fire has been escalating and burning for 16 days, and picking up pace every day. So much so, that the city of Sao Paulo, that is 3000 kms away was dark with clouds of smoke, and yet the world did not know about it. We needed celebrities to speak about it because that’s then you get heft to your voice. From actors like Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Arjun Kapoor, Disha Patani, everyone is trying to do their bit to spread news about the flaming, discordant protest of mother nature, and yet simply not enough is being done.

Realising their duty to the planet, several actors and actresses from Bollywood are making use of their fanbase to talk about the fire wreaking havoc in the Amazon.

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Ace Hollywood actor Leonardo Di Caprio also took to his social media to share a word about the calamity and urged people to spread news and sense over the topic. And what is probably worse than realising what we’ve led the world to with our careless actions, is the fact that people were far more concerned and active during the time of the Notre Dame fire, but can’t seem to care less about the things that actually do matter and will affect them too.

The cause of the fire, that is partially the wild fires due to droughts and partially due to the farmers way of lighting fires for deforestation to serve cattle, has spiralled out of control to a point where we can see the lungs of the planet catch fire and die. As reported by various satellites, there are approximately 9500 fires currently escalating in the amazon, and if that is not reason enough to cause alarm, then we don’t know what is.

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